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Something I find really interesting is how VIM takes up a huge chunk of the TILs.

One of my personal quirks is I feel like those terminal-based editors consume an undue amount of time and energy to learn and maintain. This TIL seems to give a bit of extra evidence for that suspicion. Simpler options have been available for years now (e.g., Sublime). In those rare moments when you do need to edit files on a remote server, nano is always available.

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If you read the basic documentation for these editors, you'll know how to do the basic editing tasks in a day.

After that, it's just years of learning more and more—which is a nice journey.

Emacs and Vim are standard free software tools, so they get the new language modes and integrations, and they're available everywhere.

By the way, I edit files on a remote server literally all day long.

I agree that the Vim learning curve is steeper, but many of these TILs veer towards higher-level Vim wizardry--the kind of things that most Vim users will never both learning (and will never need to). Many of them are also way beyond the capacity of Sublime or Nano.

*bother learning

I'm learning Emacs and you are right, you need time and energy. They are powerful tools so that's expected. I'm enjoying the journey, but it's not for everybody.

Nice to know your learning emacs. Try org-mode to implement the OP's idea.

If I'm not mistaken tpope, one of the most prolific members of the Vim community works at Hashrocket. I can imagine just being around him will result in an endless stream of Vim TILs.

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